Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop
Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.